The remarks from Bannon echo guidelines put forward in the conservative manifesto Project 2025.
Steve Bannon has discussed plans to have federal departments like the Department of Justice be 'purged' if former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 election.Bannon, Trump's former White House chief strategist, named the DOJ and the FBI as two agencies that are at risk of being stripped down if Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, is inaugurated as president on January 20, 2025.
President Joe Biden's 2024 campaign shared a clip of Bannon's remarks on social media, paraphrasing his words.'Steve Bannon on Project 2025: We are going to purge the federal government of those who don't support Trump. We will restructure the Justice Department to prosecute our political opponents,' Biden's team posted on X, formerly Twitter.
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